[The AI Era] [An Ordinary Person’s Struggle] [A Change Unfolding Right Now]
The first time Yu Chen used AI to write copy, he didn’t think much of it.
He was just an ordinary graphic designer on the ninth floor.
What could a machine that wrote a few sentences really change?
Back then, the ninth floor was still full of people.
Lin Zhixia sat beside him. He liked her but had no idea how to get closer to her. Xu Qing told him there might be another path in life.
But no one imagined that, a few years later, AI would slowly begin changing everyone’s lives.
Some people left. Some changed careers. Some suddenly found their skills no longer mattered.
Yu Chen only wanted to keep his job and hold on to the people around him.
Until one day, he discovered that the answer AI gave was nothing like what anyone had imagined.
And at the other end of the city, an investigation into AI decision-making was quietly getting underway.